"Arny Krueger" wrote

Personal preferences play a significant
role in the user's long term satisfaction. Each program
you name-dropped has its own unique menus and
intuitiveness.

Right, and both Goldwave and Audacity are distributed
for free. Goldwave is freely distributed as mildly-limited
shareware and Audacity is out-and-out freeware.

It always comes down to the money for you, Arny.

Except it isn't that way when the rubber hits the road.

I've downloaded Audition. Went through the Help/Get
Started menu and did some editing of an existing SF
file. Total time expended 1hr 10 minutes. I challenge
you to do the same with Sound Forge 7.0.

http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.co...p1.asp?CatID=1

This seems like a reasonable request given the
bandwidth you've wasted trashing Sound
Forge/Sony products. Stand-and-deliver, mr. Flat Tire.


I'm simply trying to encourage people who don't have the
sort of confidence that I have...

You've given negative advice on purchasing Sound Forge
products and in regard to SF 5,6, and 7.0 you have
absolutely zero empirical experiences. Your brief
understanding of SF XP4.5 (W95) gives me little
"confidence" in your professionalism.


... to spend money on audio products, that they can
investigate these products without getting out their
metaphorical wallets.

You have little understanding of buyer behavior.
Self-importance seems to be your primary
motivational factor behind your poorly educated
(lack of empirical experiences) advice.